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The QC, Vol. 87, No. 14 • January 18, 2001

2001_01_18_001

■ Where Shou
be Drawn?
The debate between an individual's
right to privacy and the public's right
to know ensues this week.
The
Justice, freedom, racism, sexual
orientation, Pitt-bull-in-a-skirt,
oppression, and pieces of a p ie—
I dream, you dream, we dream...
■ Cooking the Bo
Uptown World visits the Little
Old Book Shop tucked away on
Greenleaf. Tomes of every taste
line the columns of our review.
No Challenge
Men's basketball slams Caltech
78-36 in front of the smallest
audience we can remember.
WHITTIER ♦ COLLEGE
January 18, 2001
■^WAittier
^-^ -| ^-^ January 10, zuui
Quaker Campus
^^ The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914 JLlllrflta__iM_
http://www.iniliittiep.edii/qc
Temporary Power Generator an Imperfect Solution
■ POWER STRUGGLE
by Eric Dzinski and Amy Stice
QC Assoc. Opinions Editor and
News Editor
In order to cope with the extended power shortage in Southern California, Whittier College
is taking matters into its own
hands. "Not having power for extended periods of time was unacceptable," explained Executive
Director of Human Resources Jan
Merideth. The College has leased
a portable centralized generator
to supply the school with light and
heat for the foreseeable future,
but some students, especially in
the residence halls, have discovered failures in the new power
system.
Maintenance hopes that the
duration of power interruptions
decreases as the process for
switching between power provided by Southern California Edison
(S.C.E.) to the new generator is
perfected. "So far, so great," said
Ken Spencer, one of six maintenance workers trained in the oper
ation of the generator. "We just
need to work out a few bugs." In
order to switch from the S.C.E.
power grid to the generator, the
connection to the grid must be cut,
and the generator must be con-
. nected in its place, a process that
requires several minutes to complete.
Since May of 1993, the College has had a contract with S .C.E.
to shut down the power in the
event of a stage three power shortage. Under the terms of the contract, S.C.E. can order the College's power shut down for up to
six hours in any twenty-four hour
period, though according to Vice
President of Finance Jan Legoza,
the actual span of outages rarely
exceeds three hours a day.
However, the campus ran off
the generator for about 11 hours
on Tuesday, Jan. 16 and switched
to generator power at approximately 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday,
Jan. 17. At press time, the generator had run for 18 hours in a 24-
hour period.
Although the generator theoretically provides ^reliable power
to the residence halls, Johnson
and Wardman Halls were without
hot water, heat or telephone connections throughout Wednesday.
Johnson experienced a power
surge that reportedly blew out the
monitors of students' computers,
and while sporadic rooms in the
hall were provided with blinding-
ly bright light, others' lights were
too dim to see by. In Wardman,
most residents left the building to
study.
Sophomore Christian Gre-
goire, a Wardman resident, studied Wednesday night by generator-provided light in the hallway
of his residence hall. Wearing a
hat to partially block the bright
light, he described the situation as
better than trying to study in his
room, where the lights "just flicker. It's not worth it."
Students have also reported
flickering lights during class during the day, and some night classes have been cancelled because
power has not been provided to
the classrooms.
According to Legoza, the contract saves the College anywhere
between $75,000 and $100,000
annually. With Legoza's estimate
of 30 hours a month without power, the generator should cost the
school about $20,000 a month.
The contract was supposed to be
up for an opt-out opportunity last
November, according to Meredith,
but the California Public Utility
Commission (C.P.U.C.) extend-
See STRUGGLE, page 5
A generator was temporarily installed in front of Platner Hall
to power the campus during blackouts.
Beecher Election Case &C Sanctioned by Pub. Board, Appeal Filed
Rejected by Board, COR
■ COR
by Amy Stice
QC News Editor
The recentiy-formed Council of Representatives (COR)
Election Appeals Board voted
on Friday, Dec. 8 to refuse to
hear the appeal of junior former
COR Presidential candidate
Tom Beecher, leaving the final
decision to the general body of
COR. The Council voted in a
closed meeting to dismiss
Beecher's appeal.
Beecher was disqualified
from the election because of alleged campaign violations. The
general body of COR voted on
Monday, Dec. 4 to form the committee after sophomore Elizabeth Rohback requested the formation of such a group at the
COR meeting.
The Election Appeals Com
mittee—consisting of Associate
Dean of Students and Director of
the Cultural Center Tracy Poon'
Tambascia, Serials Librarian and
COR Faculty Advisor Joe Dmo-
howski and senior then-COR
Treasurer Jaison Battle—met for
ten minutes before deciding that
they were not empowered by the
COR Constitution to hear Beecher's case. Battle later stated at the
COR meeting that the group felt
that they "should possibly have
that authority."
The Board was additionally
supposed to include a non-COR
member, but Battle said that neither senior Matt Lomeli nor junior Jasmine Juarez, who had
served on the Elections Committee, were available.
Battle said it was a unanimous decision to proceed without the non-COR member there,
calling it "the only alternative
See APPEAL, page 5
M QUAKER CAMPUS
by Mike Schmidli
QCAsst. A&E Editor
In the final meeting of the Fall
2000 semester, the Publications
Board voted to suspend sophomore Quaker Campus News Editor Amy Stice for four consecutive issues of the newspaper,
placed Stice and junior Editor-in-
Chief Erin Clark on Publications
Board probation for the remainder of the academic year and required the paper to publish a front
page, formal letter of apology.
The closed deliberations on
Friday, Dec. 8 concerned a written grievance submitted by senior
former Council of Representatives
(COR) Vice-President Leanna
Wilson, charging that the Quaker
Campus article "Human Resources Approves Payment of COR Executive Board" (Issue 11 Volume
87) lacked sufficient evidence,
contained inaccurate financial figures and violated Wilson's privacy by printing her "personal financial information."
"I felt violated," Wilson said.
"I held a position on COR where
I was giving up a lot of my time
and energy and then due to that
same position someone else felt
that they were able to broadcast
private information of mine."
The Quaker Campus is currently appealing to an as-yet-to-
be-named Executive Committee
as stipulated by the Publications
Board Bylaws. "I'm extremely
optimistic that when the appeal is
looked at by a body that is by no
means involved with the article,
that body will realize the ludicrous nature of the Publications
Board decision," Stice said. "The
appeal is very clear in citing the
legalities of the press, and I think
the Executive Board will realize
that the QC is safe in publishing
this information."
The article focused on Human
Resources' approval of a COR
Executive Council request for
payment. According to the article, senior then-COR President
Jonathan Collard and senior then-
Treasurer Jaison Battle applied to
have their full work study awards
of $2,500 paid in full in the final
six weeks of the semester, while
junior then-Secretary Vincent
Vigil applied to split his work
study award with another job.
Wilson, the article stated,
"would not qualify for payment,
because she was not awarded
work-study." The potential work-
study payments were made explicit both in the article and in a
corresponding text box, which
showed that in order to earn their
allotted awards within the six-
week time frame, the COR Executive Council would have to earn
$416.67 per week and $20.84 per
hour, based on the 20-hour work
week. According to Clark, "We
printed the requested amount. Our
reporting of someone's unethical
actions does not make us unethical."
Publications Board, however,
found the Quaker Campus guilty
as charged. After the four-hour
meeting, a majority vote of the
body of students found the article
in violation four sections of the
Publications Board Bylaws. Section 5.03 states that it is the charge
See SANCTIONS, page 4
ISSUE 14* VOLUME 87

■ Where Shou
be Drawn?
The debate between an individual's
right to privacy and the public's right
to know ensues this week.
The
Justice, freedom, racism, sexual
orientation, Pitt-bull-in-a-skirt,
oppression, and pieces of a p ie—
I dream, you dream, we dream...
■ Cooking the Bo
Uptown World visits the Little
Old Book Shop tucked away on
Greenleaf. Tomes of every taste
line the columns of our review.
No Challenge
Men's basketball slams Caltech
78-36 in front of the smallest
audience we can remember.
WHITTIER ♦ COLLEGE
January 18, 2001
■^WAittier
^-^ -| ^-^ January 10, zuui
Quaker Campus
^^ The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914 JLlllrflta__iM_
http://www.iniliittiep.edii/qc
Temporary Power Generator an Imperfect Solution
■ POWER STRUGGLE
by Eric Dzinski and Amy Stice
QC Assoc. Opinions Editor and
News Editor
In order to cope with the extended power shortage in Southern California, Whittier College
is taking matters into its own
hands. "Not having power for extended periods of time was unacceptable," explained Executive
Director of Human Resources Jan
Merideth. The College has leased
a portable centralized generator
to supply the school with light and
heat for the foreseeable future,
but some students, especially in
the residence halls, have discovered failures in the new power
system.
Maintenance hopes that the
duration of power interruptions
decreases as the process for
switching between power provided by Southern California Edison
(S.C.E.) to the new generator is
perfected. "So far, so great," said
Ken Spencer, one of six maintenance workers trained in the oper
ation of the generator. "We just
need to work out a few bugs." In
order to switch from the S.C.E.
power grid to the generator, the
connection to the grid must be cut,
and the generator must be con-
. nected in its place, a process that
requires several minutes to complete.
Since May of 1993, the College has had a contract with S .C.E.
to shut down the power in the
event of a stage three power shortage. Under the terms of the contract, S.C.E. can order the College's power shut down for up to
six hours in any twenty-four hour
period, though according to Vice
President of Finance Jan Legoza,
the actual span of outages rarely
exceeds three hours a day.
However, the campus ran off
the generator for about 11 hours
on Tuesday, Jan. 16 and switched
to generator power at approximately 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday,
Jan. 17. At press time, the generator had run for 18 hours in a 24-
hour period.
Although the generator theoretically provides ^reliable power
to the residence halls, Johnson
and Wardman Halls were without
hot water, heat or telephone connections throughout Wednesday.
Johnson experienced a power
surge that reportedly blew out the
monitors of students' computers,
and while sporadic rooms in the
hall were provided with blinding-
ly bright light, others' lights were
too dim to see by. In Wardman,
most residents left the building to
study.
Sophomore Christian Gre-
goire, a Wardman resident, studied Wednesday night by generator-provided light in the hallway
of his residence hall. Wearing a
hat to partially block the bright
light, he described the situation as
better than trying to study in his
room, where the lights "just flicker. It's not worth it."
Students have also reported
flickering lights during class during the day, and some night classes have been cancelled because
power has not been provided to
the classrooms.
According to Legoza, the contract saves the College anywhere
between $75,000 and $100,000
annually. With Legoza's estimate
of 30 hours a month without power, the generator should cost the
school about $20,000 a month.
The contract was supposed to be
up for an opt-out opportunity last
November, according to Meredith,
but the California Public Utility
Commission (C.P.U.C.) extend-
See STRUGGLE, page 5
A generator was temporarily installed in front of Platner Hall
to power the campus during blackouts.
Beecher Election Case &C Sanctioned by Pub. Board, Appeal Filed
Rejected by Board, COR
■ COR
by Amy Stice
QC News Editor
The recentiy-formed Council of Representatives (COR)
Election Appeals Board voted
on Friday, Dec. 8 to refuse to
hear the appeal of junior former
COR Presidential candidate
Tom Beecher, leaving the final
decision to the general body of
COR. The Council voted in a
closed meeting to dismiss
Beecher's appeal.
Beecher was disqualified
from the election because of alleged campaign violations. The
general body of COR voted on
Monday, Dec. 4 to form the committee after sophomore Elizabeth Rohback requested the formation of such a group at the
COR meeting.
The Election Appeals Com
mittee—consisting of Associate
Dean of Students and Director of
the Cultural Center Tracy Poon'
Tambascia, Serials Librarian and
COR Faculty Advisor Joe Dmo-
howski and senior then-COR
Treasurer Jaison Battle—met for
ten minutes before deciding that
they were not empowered by the
COR Constitution to hear Beecher's case. Battle later stated at the
COR meeting that the group felt
that they "should possibly have
that authority."
The Board was additionally
supposed to include a non-COR
member, but Battle said that neither senior Matt Lomeli nor junior Jasmine Juarez, who had
served on the Elections Committee, were available.
Battle said it was a unanimous decision to proceed without the non-COR member there,
calling it "the only alternative
See APPEAL, page 5
M QUAKER CAMPUS
by Mike Schmidli
QCAsst. A&E Editor
In the final meeting of the Fall
2000 semester, the Publications
Board voted to suspend sophomore Quaker Campus News Editor Amy Stice for four consecutive issues of the newspaper,
placed Stice and junior Editor-in-
Chief Erin Clark on Publications
Board probation for the remainder of the academic year and required the paper to publish a front
page, formal letter of apology.
The closed deliberations on
Friday, Dec. 8 concerned a written grievance submitted by senior
former Council of Representatives
(COR) Vice-President Leanna
Wilson, charging that the Quaker
Campus article "Human Resources Approves Payment of COR Executive Board" (Issue 11 Volume
87) lacked sufficient evidence,
contained inaccurate financial figures and violated Wilson's privacy by printing her "personal financial information."
"I felt violated," Wilson said.
"I held a position on COR where
I was giving up a lot of my time
and energy and then due to that
same position someone else felt
that they were able to broadcast
private information of mine."
The Quaker Campus is currently appealing to an as-yet-to-
be-named Executive Committee
as stipulated by the Publications
Board Bylaws. "I'm extremely
optimistic that when the appeal is
looked at by a body that is by no
means involved with the article,
that body will realize the ludicrous nature of the Publications
Board decision," Stice said. "The
appeal is very clear in citing the
legalities of the press, and I think
the Executive Board will realize
that the QC is safe in publishing
this information."
The article focused on Human
Resources' approval of a COR
Executive Council request for
payment. According to the article, senior then-COR President
Jonathan Collard and senior then-
Treasurer Jaison Battle applied to
have their full work study awards
of $2,500 paid in full in the final
six weeks of the semester, while
junior then-Secretary Vincent
Vigil applied to split his work
study award with another job.
Wilson, the article stated,
"would not qualify for payment,
because she was not awarded
work-study." The potential work-
study payments were made explicit both in the article and in a
corresponding text box, which
showed that in order to earn their
allotted awards within the six-
week time frame, the COR Executive Council would have to earn
$416.67 per week and $20.84 per
hour, based on the 20-hour work
week. According to Clark, "We
printed the requested amount. Our
reporting of someone's unethical
actions does not make us unethical."
Publications Board, however,
found the Quaker Campus guilty
as charged. After the four-hour
meeting, a majority vote of the
body of students found the article
in violation four sections of the
Publications Board Bylaws. Section 5.03 states that it is the charge
See SANCTIONS, page 4
ISSUE 14* VOLUME 87